PROFITS IN FARMING ON IRRIGATED AREAS IN UTAH. 
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Table X. — Cost and yield of an acre of tomatoes, average of three farms in the Utah Lake 
Valley. 
[Yield: Tons, 15.9; receipts therefrom, $166.6.5.] 
Items of cost. 
Man 
hours. 
Horse 
horns. 
Cost. 
Labor operations: i 
Manuring 
Plowing 
Disking 
Spike-tooth harrowing 
Spring-tooth harrowing 
Leveling 
Marking 
Trenching 
Watering 
Planting (partly by contract). 
Cultivating 
Hoeing 
Replanting 
Bugging 
Picking (partly by contract).. 
Hauling 
1.77 
7.30 
1.26 
2.00 
4.65 
1.58 
1.02 
.84 
11.34 
10.88 
12.47 
8.37 
.28 
1.67 
106. 98 
25.40 
3.54 
14.60 
3.02 
4.00 
13.95 
3.53 
2.05 
.84 
12.47 
$0.71 
2.92 
.55 
.80 
2.33 
.67 
.41 
.25 
2.27 
3.46 
3.74 
1.67 
.06 
.33 
30.70 
10.15 
Total labor. 
197. 81 
108. 79 
Items other than labor: 
Manure 
Plants 
Crates 
Water 
Interest and taxes on land at 6 per cent. 
Equipment 
61.02 
.93 
10.18 
1.95 
3.26 
16.88 
3.91 
Total cost other than labor. 
Total cost 
37.11 
98.13 
SUMMARY. 
Account. 
Total. 
Per ton. 
Per bushel. 
Income 
$166. 65 
98.13 
$10. 48 
6.17 
$0.26 
Cost 
. 15 
Profit 
68.52 
4.31 
.11 
1 Rates per hour: Man labor, 20 cents; horse labor, 10 cents. 
POTATOES. 
The cost of growing potatoes is about the same as that of sugar 
beets, or a little less. As previously stated, uncertain prices at har- 
vest time and trouble with blight have been the cause of most farmers 
discontinuing this crop as one of their main cash enterprises. 
APPLES. 
The history of apple growing in this area is in some respects the 
same as that in some of the fruit districts in the Pacific Northwest. 
Many farmers have planted a few acres of apples, but only a small 
number have made this their entire farm business. Sugar beets, 
small fruits, potatoes, and peaches have been grown extensively in 
the young orchards, so that the expense of bringing the orchards 
